Deranged/Motel Hell (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
by Alan Ormsby, Jeff Gillen, Kevin Connor
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Actor: Cosette Lee, Leslie Carlson, Marcia Diamond, Robert Warner, Roberts BlossomDirector: Alan Ormsby, Jeff Gillen, Kevin Connor
Writer: Alan Ormsby
Producer: Austen Jewell
Writer: Robert Jaffe
Writer: Steven-Charles Jaffe
Writer: Tim Tuchrello
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 183 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Deranged/Motel Hell (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
Movie Review: Double Dose Of Demented Serial Killers (Two Reasons For Staying Away From The Farmlands)
Summary: 5 Stars
This superb double feature from MGM will make you scared of traveling through the country - especially at night - on those long, winding roads. There are demented, sadistic farmers like Ezra Cobb and Vincent Smith who can't help preying on tourists and locals alike. If you enjoyed the classic horror hit, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," you will enjoy this double dose of demented serial killers.
"Deranged" is a creepfest that grossed me out. It chronicles the mental breakdown of Ezra Cobb, a middle-aged farmer who deeply loved and cared for his dying mother. I couldn't help but feel sorry for him when she passed. However, she filled his brain with hatred towards women. Ezra suffers a mental breakdown. He digs up his mom's corpse and attempts to restore her face with the flesh of recently deceased women. From there, Ezra sinks into the bowels of depravity. He begins luring women to his home and killing them. He hints to his neighbors what he is doing but no one believes him until it is too late. "Deranged" has a gruesome ending that you will not soon forget.
"Motel Hell" is also filled with sadistic, grotesque horror. Farmer Vincent lays bear traps in the roads in order to cause vehicles to crash. With the help of his sister, Ida, he transports the survivors to their secret garden where they are planted in the ground up to their necks, their vocal cords cut and burlap bags placed over their heads. They are left until "ripe." Then they are harvested, cut into pieces and smoked. Farmer Vincent sells his special meats to tourists and locals within a hundred mile radius of his farm.
Whereas "Deranged" was presented in a more believable documentary format, "Motel Hell" has a lot of black humor. The latter is not to be taken too seriously. In fact, "Deranged" is based on the legend of infamous serial killer Ed Gein, "The Butcher of Plainfield. "Psycho" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" were also based on this true life account.
Both "Deranged" and "Motel Hell" are classics and essential viewing for horror fans, especially those who love horror from the seventies and eighties. I wish MGM had provided commentary for both films; however, there are theatrical trailers and English subtitles for the hearing impaired.
Summary of Deranged/Motel Hell (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
Deranged: Ezra's good at making friends... into home furnishings! Based on the same terrifying story that inspired Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs, this hauntingly scary film chronicles the grisly exploits of a rural necrophiliac and murderer! Brace yourself for a "solid horror story" (Variety) that's guaranteed to make you bite your nails... because if you don't, Ezra will!Motel Hell: You really are what you eat with Farmer Vincent's smoked meat in this creepy horror yarn that "packs a punch and goes way beyond mere terror" (Box Office)! Vincent's popular products contain a special ingredient that the psychotic farmer and his sister would literally kill to keep secret in this darkly funny flick that "just might be your cup of meat" (L.A. Herald Examiner).
A double bill of rural schlock, with both entries gruesome but somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Deranged was inspired by the unsavory saga of Ed Gein, whose isolated madness oiled the gears of both Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. This is a low-rent production all the way, but its shabby locations have a certain eerie authenticity, and it benefits greatly from the casting of the reliable character actor Roberts Blossom--a scarecrow in the American Gothic mold--in the lead role. Now and again a somber but vaguely amusing narrator wanders into the frame to remind us that we are watching the tale of "a necromaniac, a defiler of the dead," as though we could forget. Serial-killer completists should check it out.
Motel Hell is slicker but less effective. Former Western star Rory Calhoun plays Farmer Vincent, a country hotel keeper (free samples of jerky at the front desk) whose line of smoked meats turns his customers into unwitting cannibals. The movie's got some genuinely creeped-out ideas (a backyard garden of victims, buried up to their necks?), but the execution is pedestrian and the humor pretty square. Onetime cultural icon Wolfman Jack has a few scenes as a TV preacher, for no apparent reason. --Robert Horton
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